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UNTTED STATES PATENT Orrica JOHN GOOD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,582, dated October20, 1885. Application filed January 10, 1885. Serial No. 152,474. (Nomodel.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN GOOD, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city'of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Spreading andDrawing Hemp, Flax, and other Fibrous Materials, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to that class of spreading and drawing machineryin which the fiber is operated upon by means of catenary series ofgill-pins.

The objects of this invention are to increase the capacity andefficiency of such machinery, to save much of the room occupied by themachines as now constructed and organized, and to reduce the laborrequired to attend to them.

The invention consists, principally, in the combination of twoindependently-working catenary series of gill-pins so geared to run inopposite directions that the operative pins of the two series movetoward each other, and interposed drawing-heads and delivery appatus,whereby the fibers operated upon by the two series of gill-pins aredrawn in opposite directions, and collected together and delivered inthe form of a single sliver.

The invention further consists in improvements, hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed, relating to the drawing-heads and deliveryapparatus employed in the combination hereinbefore mentioned.

As introductory to a detailed description of my invention, I will state,generally, that a machine embodying my invention resembles twodrawing-frames or two spreaders from which the delivery-rollers andfunnel-like condensers had been removed, placed end to end with theirdrawing-heads close together, and having between them a deliveryapparatus by which the fibers received from the drawing-heads of the twomachines are collected together and delivered as a single sliver.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of adrawingframe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the samebetween the just the belts c to a proper tension.

two drawing-heads and through the center of the 'deliveryapparatns. Fig.4 is a diagram representing'a longitudinal View of the principal workingparts of a spreader embodying the principal feature of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, designates the main framing of the machine. B B and OO are the wheels which support the chains of the two catenary'series D Dof gill-pins, the wheels B B being the drivers of the chains. E E arethe feed-rolls, andFF are the feed-boards, over which the slivers orstricks to be drawn pass to the feed-rolls. G G are the drawingheads.

All the parts hereinabove referred to, except the drawing-heads, may beand are represented as such as are now to be found in drawing-frames incommon use. The drawingheads may be of any suitable kind, but thoserepresented are the subject of my United States Patent N 0. 315,766,dated April 14, 1885, and are particularly well adapted to the carryingout of the present invention.

Each of these drawing-heads consists, principally, of two drawing-rolls,a b, the upper one, I), of which is covered with elastic vulcanizedindia-rubber, and an endless belt, 0, of leather running on the roll 12and on an upper extension-roll, d. Pressure-springse are adj ustablyapplied to the j ournal-boxes of the rolls 1), and adj usting-screws hare applied to the journal-boxes of the upper rolls, d, to ad- Thedrawing-heads are so arranged that their two belts, c 0, run parallel,or nearly so, and close together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and theyare so geared and driven that the contiguous parts of the two belts runupward. The journal-boxes of the extension-rolls d are arranged in smallframes f, which are adjustable by screws 9 in the standards H H, whichare erected on the main frame A to support the drawing-heads. Theadjusting-screws h are also fitted to these frames f. The horizontaladjustment thus provided for the rolls d enables the upper parts of thebelts c c to be brought as near together as desirable.

Above the belts c a there are arranged in suitable bearings a pair ofde1ivery-rolls,J J,

the axes of which are transverse to the axes of the rolls of thedrawing-heads, and between the said belts and the said delivery-rolls isa funnel-shaped condenser, 3. (See Fig. 3.) On one side of thedelivery-rolls is an inclined delivery board or conductor, I.

One of the lower drawing-rolls a is represented as made to constitutethe main shaft of the machine, being furnished on one side of themachine witha pulley, j, (shown in dotted outline in Figsfl and 2,) toreceive motion from a belt, 70. The gearing through which the otherparts of the machine receive motion is all on the other side of themachine,- which is the side presented to view in Fig. 1. The two rolls aa are geared together by spur-gears Z Z. On the shaft of the first rolla, on which is the driving-pulley, there is secured a pinion, m, whichgears with a spurwheel, a, through which motion is given to thedrivingwheels B B of the endless chains of the two catenary series ofgill pins. This wheel it turns freely on a fixed stud, 0, secured on theframing A, and there is secured to the said wheel n a pinion, p,whichgears directly into a spur-wheel, q, on the shaft of the drivingwheel Bof the catenary series of pins D. The said pinion p is also gearedthrough an intermediate spur-wheel, p, with a spur-wheel, q, on theshaft of the driving-wheel B of the other series of pins. This gearingis such that the operative pins of each of the two catenary seriesthatis to say, those pins which are at i any time presented upwardwill runtoward the operative pinsof the other series, those of each seriesrunning toward the drawing-heads, which, it will be observed, cometogether at the center of the machine.

. belts c of the two drawing-heads.

The feed-rolls E E derive motion from the chains of their respectiveseries of pins through gearing a" s t and r s t, as shown in Fig.1.

The upper drawing-rolls, b, may be geared each to its respective lowerone, a, by spurgears; but they are represented as not geared, the beltsc and the upper drawing-rolls being driven by the surfaces of the lowerdrawingroll acting on the belts through the slivers passing betweenthem.

The delivery-rolls are driven by a band, it,

running from a pulley, v, on the shaft of oneof the lower drawing-rollsa to a pulley, w, on the lower deliveryroll, the band being guided byidler-pulleys uu", as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. v

The operation of this machine is as follows: Any number of slivers orstickssay from one to twelvc-may be taken from as many cans arranged ateach end of the machine, andipassed over the feed-boards F and F to thefeed-rolls E E, from which the slivers pass to the two catenary seriesof pins, D D, and thence between the drawing-rolls a and The fibers fromeach pair of feed-rolls are acted upon independently by the respectivecatenary series of gill-pins and drawing-rolls in the same way as thefibers are acted upon in an ordinary drawing-frame. The fibers from bothseries of pins, after being thus independently drawn.

by the drawing-rolls and pins, are all carried upward together betweenthe two endless belts c c, and pass together through the condenser i, inwhich they are brought together in the form of a single sliver, which istaken by the delivery-rolls J J, and thereby delivered into theconductor 1, whence they may go to a can or any other suitablereceptable.

The embodiment of my invention in a drawing-frame having now been fullydescribed, a brief reference to the diagram, Fig. 4, will be sufficientto explain its application to a spreader. This diagram shows theprincipal parts of a spreader, in each half of which the system orcombination of two catenary series of gill-pins is the same as thatwhich is the subject of my United States Letters ,Patent N 0. 311,310,dated January 27, 1885. This spreader embodies the principal parts oftwo spreaders having such a system of chains as is described in saidLetters Patent in the same way that the drawing-frame shown in Figs. 1,2, and 3 embodies the principal parts of two drawing-frames with aninterposed delivery apparatus common to both.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of two catenary series of gill-pins, two interposeddrawing heads, one set of delivery-rolls common to both series ofgill-pins and both drawing-heads, and gearing and driving mechanism,substantially as herein described, whereby said series of gill-pins anddrawingheads are caused to run in opposite directions and toward eachother, and the delivery-rolls are caused to deliver in a single sliverall the fibers received by the two drawing heads from the two series ofchains, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination of two catenary series of gill-pins, two drawingheadsinterposed between said series, one set of delivery-rolls common to bothof said drawing-heads, acoudenser common to both drawing-headsinterposed between said heads and delivery-rolls, and gearing anddriving mechanism, substantially as herein described, for driving thesaid series of gill-pins and drawing-heads in opposite directions anddriving said delivery-rolls, substantially as and for the purpose hereinset forth.

. 3. The combination of two catenary series of gill-pins, two interposeddrawing-heads, each comprising two drawing-rolls, an extension-roll, andan endless belt running on one of said drawing-rolls and on theextensionroll, the two endless belts being parallel and near together,and mechanism, substantially as herein described, for driving saidseries of pins in opposite directions and for driving the said rolls tocause the contiguous parts of said belts to run in the same direction,as and for the purpose herein set forth.

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4. The combination, with the two catenary tially as herein described, ofadjusting said series of gill-pins and two interposed drawbelts as neartogether as may be desirable, as ing-heads, each comprising twodrawing-rolls, herein set forth.

an extension-roll, and an endless belt running JOHN GOOD. 5 on one ofsaid drawing-rolls, and on the ex- \Vitnesses:

tension roll driving mechanism for driving FREDK. HAYNES,

the said pins and rolls, and means, substan- MATTHEW PoLLooK.

